Building a WooCommerce payment extension is a straightforward process for the most part. The hardest problem that you’ll probably encounter is learning how to interact with the merchant’s API to submit a payment and parse the response back. In this article, we are going to build the real thing: a working WooCommerce payment extension. Then, we’ll even connect it to a real payment processor, which we are going to submit payments to and parse the response. The Different Flavors of WooCommerce Payment Gateways There are four different types of WooCommerce payment gateways which we can build to process payments on your store. Let’s begin by taking a look at the one we are going to be using in this article; the Direct method. …